[English version below]

In ainneoin na mílte Éireannach a thit i gcogadh mór 1914-1918, is beag trácht orthu i litríocht na Gaeilge. Seo é an chéad úrscéal sa teanga a insíonn a scéal. Ní hé amháin gur saothar ceannródaíoch é Saighdiúir ach is úrscéal cumhachtach frithchogaidh é, agus é tugtha chun solais go húr beo máistriúil ag Cathal Ó Searcaigh.

Láithreoir: Seán Ó Catháin

Aíonna: LAonghus Ó hAlmhain agus Liam Mac Amhlaigh

[Leagan Gaeilge thuas]

The novel’s protagonists are two young Gaelic speakers from Cloich Cheann Fhaola in north west Donegal who believe they are going on a glorious adventure without any real notion of the horrific realities they would encounter as infantrymen on the western front. Saighdiúir is an immensely moving book that evokes the horror and the terror of that dreadful conflict. It gives vivid heart-rending descriptions of the tragic waste of brief young lives fed into the voracious jaws of war. It is a harrowing corrective to the myth of a just war.

Presenter: Seán Ó Catháin

Guests: Aonghus Ó hAlmhain and Liam Mac Amhlaigh